Monkee Business (album)

Monkee Business was a 1982 singles and rarities compilation album of songs by the Monkees, issued by Rhino Records. It was a picture disc reissue of an earlier limited-issue collection, and Monkee Business was available in both LP and cassette formats. Several of the tracks were taken from Monkeemania!, an Australian compilation that featured previously-unreleased recordings.

The album is notable for being the first American Monkees rarities collection, and also as an early effort from Rhino Records. It was also the LP debut of several tracks which had only been released as singles, including "Goin' Down," "D.W. Washburn," "It's Nice to Be With You," and "Someday Man." While the track selection and notation were first-rate, the album suffered some technical faults; as a picture disc, the playback quality of the record was inferior to what was available in the early 1980s. There also appeared to be little or no remastering done to the tracks, with equalization and other factors varying widely from song to song. This resulted in the album sounding more like a bootleg recording or home tape, than a professionally produced LP.

The album went out of print as Rhino shifted from vinyl releases to compact discs. Each of the tracks have since been reissued (carefully digitally remastered) on CD, as part of the Missing Links set of collections, or as bonus tracks on concurrent Monkees albums, though not all in the same versions (notably "Tema Dei Monkees", an Italian language version of their television show's theme).